Climate
Hurghada has a subtropical-desert climate (Köppen climate classification Bwh), with mild-warm winters and hot to very hot summers. The summer season lasts year round. Temperatures in the period December–January–February are moderately warm, while November, March and April – comfortably warm. May and October is hot and the period from June to September is very hot. Sunshine hours are around 3,800 per year (one of the highest results in the world), from average 9 hours of sunshine / day in December to average 13 hours in July. Average annual temperature of sea is 24 °C (75 °F), from 21 °C (70 °F) in February and March to 28 °C (82 °F) in August.
| Climate data for Hurghada | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 21.5 (70.7) |
22.6 (72.7) |
25.2 (77.4) |
29.1 (84.4) |
32.9 (91.2) |
35.3 (95.5) |
36.2 (97.2) |
37.1 (98.8) |
35.3 (95.5) |
31.1 (88.0) |
26.8 (80.2) |
22.7 (72.9) |
30.48 (86.86) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 16.3 (61.3) |
17.0 (62.6) |
19.6 (67.3) |
23.5 (74.3) |
24.9 (76.8) |
30.1 (86.2) |
31.3 (88.3) |
34.2 (93.6) |
29.3 (84.7) |
26.0 (78.8) |
21.7 (71.1) |
17.6 (63.7) |
24.04 (75.27) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 11.0 (51.8) |
11.4 (52.5) |
14.0 (57.2) |
17.8 (64.0) |
21.9 (71.4) |
24.8 (76.6) |
26.4 (79.5) |
27.2 (81.0) |
24.2 (75.6) |
20.9 (69.6) |
16.6 (61.9) |
12.5 (54.5) |
18.97 (66.15) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 0.4 (0.016) |
0.02 (0.0008) |
0.3 (0.012) |
1.0 (0.039) |
0.04 (0.0016) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
0.6 (0.024) |
2.0 (0.079) |
0.9 (0.035) |
5.26 (0.2071) |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.01 mm) | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 2.0 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 279 | 290 | 310 | 300 | 341 | 360 | 403 | 372 | 330 | 310 | 270 | 279 | 3,844 |
| Source: World Meteorological Organization (UN), weather2travel.com | |||||||||||||
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